PREFACE. XI 



than the selection of portraits of remarkable trees, 

 which, though they might have added to the beauty, 

 would have failed in conveying that impress of truth 

 and fidelity which it was the object of the Author 

 to stamp upon the delineations. In regard to their exe- 

 cution, he scarcely anticipates a single objection ; and he 

 trusts, that whatever may be the decision of the public 

 as to the written contents of the volume, its meed of 

 praise and approval will be liberally bestowed upon the 

 artist who has succeeded so successfully in embellishing 

 its pages. 



